Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERBlest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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